Liz Funk

I have a confession to make: I’m an “uptalker.” (And I’m not the only one out there.) Uptalk, or “upward inflection,” is the speech habit of ending sentences like questions: the pitch of your voice trails up at the end. Examples Of Uptalking “The Millennial generation is known for uptalking, and there is a lot of debate as to when this uptalk habit began,” says Dr. Susan Miller, a sought-after vocal trainer and an assistant professor of Otolaryngology at the Georgetown University Hospital.

By Liz Funk, Levo League3 minute Read What do you know now that you wish you knew during your first job? Perfect question to ask during a network conversation—and we got the ball rolling by asking six successful women what they would tell their younger selves right now. Soak it up! During my senior year of college, when all of my friends and I started applying for jobs, I kept comparing my potential new position and salary to that of my friends.

Well done, Ernst & Young, LLP. In 2016, the Big Four accounting firm EY introduced a groundbreaking parental leave policy: “up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave if they welcome a child through birth, adoption, surrogacy, foster care or legal guardianship.” Of the 1,200 US EY employees who took parental leave during the program’s first calendar year, half were men. In the program’s second year, the number of men taking leave doubled.